Felix Hoppe-Seyler Lecture 1998: Signal Transduction via Ras

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 933-938

  Wittinghofer, Alfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effectors; GTPase; GTPase Activating protein; Oncogene; Ras

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; RAS PROTEIN; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; RAF PROTEIN;

HUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR; ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROLYSIS; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARGININE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031687777     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.8-9.933     Document Type: Article

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